As we’ve all heard by now, the astronaut Neil Armstrong died last week. For the 43 years following his moonwalk, an achievement that he could surely have parlayed into wealth and glittering fame, the self-effacing Armstrong chose instead to lived a quiet life of teaching and farming. (In contrast, the pathologically narcissistic Barack Obama — the President, by the way, who redefined NASA’s “foremost” mission to be Muslim outreach — chose to memorialize Mr. Armstrong with a picture of himself.)
The manned flight to the surface of the Moon and back was one of our people’s, and indeed mankind’s, greatest triumphs — but it might have gone otherwise. Here is the speech that William Safire had prepared for the President to read if that sorrowful circumstance had come to pass.
P.S. More on Neil Armstrong here.
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The Obama Himself is not just a narcissist. He is a caricature of a narcissist.